Monday, 6 January 2014

Achille and Pier Giacomo Castiglioni


These two Italian designers are brothers, the Castiglioni brothers were mostly into technology and some art, most of all their products contains a matter of technology. They became popular by putting up an exhibition and show off their new products the most likely was their lighting. They produced a number of interesting lights.


An electrical product that they produced was the Splügen Bräu, it was specially designed for a dining place in Italy. This was most interested for its suspension. This could be adjusted the height the diners would like. The use was so the light would focus on the table and do not disturb the customer eyes. This could be adjusted with the help of the counterweight attached to its power cable. It's shape is of a silver dome that can help the bulb make more light and bright up. In my opinion it is a very excellent job even for its function in those days it would be something amazing to do this while you dine.
Splügen Bräu

Another electrical product was the Arco one of the best known. The idea behind the Arco lamp was to provide a kind of version of a street lamp, enabling users to shine light from above in every corner of the house without having to worry about lighting points on the ceiling. By the way it is shaped it is easily to store somewhere in a corner of a room and still have the centre lighten up well.  This was made out of stainless steel curved in an arch with a marble base and the dome of the bulb is a similar shape to the Splügen Bräu. Also, if this was placed for a table or a couch it has to be a bit far from its base so the user can freely move around without any problems so they did a space of about two meters apart from the base and the dome. The light could also be adjustable by move around the two domes onto each other. It was an amazing design very clean and simple the only thing is that the base is too big in my view, they may came up with a better base would save them much more space.

Arco

A different product that they designed was the Mezzadro. The chair comprised of four elements: a tractor seat in a stamped metal sheet, marked by round holes, a curved stainless steel, a winged screw sort of to fasten a bicycle wheels, which makes it possible to assemble without any tools, and a solid Beachwood foot, which joins the steel stem at a right angle. This is an marvelous stool, for me it is something amazing showing that with simple and unusual shapes can be applied to form something out of them.

 Mezzadro


Bibliography : Matteo Vercelloni, Achille and Pier Giacomo Castiglioni, 2011. Minimum Design.

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